About CIO Agenda Task Force

SKOCH CIO Agenda Task Force

Reducing Cost, Expanding Business

Scalability | Sustainability | Security | Solidarity

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SKOCH CIO Agenda Task Force

SKOCH Group is uniquely positioned to apply both academic as well as practical rigour in evaluating products and services. This expertise stems from decades of field inputs, research and impactful policy interventions.

Terms of Reference

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Magnifying Glass

Examine the public digital infrastructure that has come up since 2014 and how it can be leveraged by the corporate sector?

Digital

Suggest how newer initiatives like eKYC, OCEN and ONDC can be strengthened and used for agility and cost cutting?

Technology

Examine the plethora of new technology options like cloud, hybrid, AI, Machine Learning and Robotic Process Automation and how these could be used for reducing cost and expanding business?

Money

How can Total Economic Impact (TEI) be communicated to boards better?

Human Resources

How to make Human Resources Development, up-skilling and agile development a tool to cut costs and expand business?

Server

Why scalability, sustainability, security and olidarity are as important at the front-end as they are at the backend?

Question

Any other issue considered relevant by the Task Force

Approach

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Primary and Secondary Research

Submissions by stakeholders on unfulfilled needs and gaps(including from public infrastructure as well as technology, product and service providers)

Evaluation of technology solutions being offered, their sustainability, key success factors, impact and residual gaps in cutting costs and expanding business

Experts, Industry and CIO Panel Discussions on Terms of Reference

Identification of best practices, use cases and documentation through SKOCH Award process

Well performing people and projects to be awarded

Release of Report

Process

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Identification of Task Force Members - India's top CIO's drawn from across sectors, senior consultants and academia

Formation of Task Force

Notes

Sharing of Terms of Reference and background note

Request for submission of inputs

Panel Discussions / Round Tables of industry, senior consultants and academia

Release of Report and Awards